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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
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Laughter
Gratitude
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I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.
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In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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